On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Zvezdan Petkovic <zvez...@zope.com> wrote: > On Dec 24, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > >> * 2009-12-24 16:20, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
... >>> FWIW, I preferred zope.testing.doctest reporting of 15 tests because >>> that's the actual number of things being tested in that file, while >>> Python doctest reports 1 test only, because that's a number of test files >>> being run. >> >> Me too, maybe we should push the changes to doctest upstream to Python? > > That will take some serious persuading. > > We could argue the above, i.e., that 15 different things were tested in one > doctest file. > > Unfortunately, when a single test in a doctest file is mixed with prose > descriptions to explain parts of the test, zope.testing.doctest counts it as > a separate test. > > This was considered a misfeature in the past and would probably be rejected > for the same reason now. I think there was some consensus for an alternate algorithm: count each example that has output. > People are divided in opinion on this and whenever that happens it's hard to > push such a change upstream into Python library. > > Of course, it may be worth trying if there is a critical mass of supporters. I'm too lazy to try something like that. I think dealing with stuff in the standard library is too much of a pain. I recommend shifting focus to manuel. I hope manuel is never added to the standard library. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )